If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises in your midst you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let us go after other gods” (which you have not known) “and let us serve them”; you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 13 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The false prophet who performs 'signs and wonders' to lead people astray, sent as a test, closely informs the lawless one's coming 'with all power and signs and lying wonders' and the resulting deception. Deuteronomy's framework of God permitting deceptive signs to test loyalty is foundational.
High confidence'False prophets will arise and show signs and wonders to lead astray' reproduces Deuteronomy's test: the prophet who 'gives a sign or wonder' and it comes to pass, yet leads you after other gods, is testing whether you love the LORD. The pairing of 'signs and wonders' with seductive false prophecy and the verb 'lead astray' (planao) is distinctively Deuteronomic.
High confidenceThe warning 'do not be led astray' by 'many who come in my name' echoes Deuteronomy's law against the prophet or dream-diviner who arises to 'lead you astray' (LXX planao) from the LORD. The same planao verb and the testing-of-Israel motif recur in 13:22, indicating Deuteronomy 13 as a structuring subtext for the deception warnings.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The test of prophets who arise to lead Israel astray after other gods parallels the antichrists who go out and seek to lead the faithful astray with lies. The deceiver who departs from true confession is judged by both.
Low confidenceDemanding 'a sign from heaven' to validate Jesus inverts the Deuteronomic test of a prophet: a sign alone does not authenticate; covenant fidelity does. Conceptual rather than verbal.
Low confidence